Cowboys Nostalgia Thread

boozeman said:
But still better.

Romo had better accuracy, but he went off the reservation more.
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He wouldn’t have done that with Tom Landry coaching. There would have been a plan and consequences for deviating in ways that damaged the team. There’d have been a commitment to the run, and a really good, consistent defense.

White inherited all that day 1.
 
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Staubach was a very tough act to follow.

Danny White had some very good moments, for sure. My favorite was the playoff game vs Atlanta.

Romo vs White? I'd go Romo. The final portion of White's career wasn't so strong.

I think I'd pick Craig Morton over both Romo and White. Morton had two bad Super Bowls, but at least he got a couple of teams to Super Bowls. They liked him a lot in Denver when he was a Bronco.
 
ZeroClub said:
Staubach was a very tough act to follow.

Danny White had some very good moments, for sure. My favorite was the playoff game vs Atlanta.
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White’s best moment as a pro. He just had such a stacked deck, but never could get us past the hottest team in the NFC whoever that happened to be.
 
NoDak said:
Danny White was good. But I think people are nostalgic for that time and give him the edge because he was part of Landry's teams.

It's close, but I'll still take Romo. Just a better overall QB that could do more.
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Thank you!
 
White's improvisational skills were not up to Romo's level, I think everyone can agree with that. Staubach improvised all the time but he had built up that trust level with Landry and Landry figured out that the end justified the means many times. White never gained that level of trust with Landry.

In fact, most of the players on offense got Landry to start rubber-arm Hogeboom over White shows that his leadership wasn't up to the level it needed to be, either.

The only thing Landry was dead-set against Staubach doing was calling his own plays.
 
Irving Cowboy said:
That said, Romo was better than Danny White... and I was a fan of his back in the day.
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Apparently you were just too young to watch Danny White and stuff.
 
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bbgun said:
He broke some of Roger's records in his first year. I can still remember the Sporting News caption under his photo: More than a punter now. When he wrested the starting job back from "Hogenbloom" in '84, he was allowed to keep it for another four years. That was a major mistake.
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Those last years of his career were difficult.
I remember thinking that White's number 11 should be replaced by a bullseye because he was such a sitting duck standing in the pocket.
 
Genghis Khan said:
Says a lot about Mosher.
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It's a head-scratcher of an opinion for two reasons:

One, Bryant was very talented for sure but we didn't get a ton out of him in the short 2.5 seasons that he played here. Most of that was due to the dogshit we trotted out there at QB during that time, but still.

Second, he didn't even play his "prime" in Dallas. :lol

The guy played his first 2.5 seasons with us then was traded. He went on to be pretty good in Tampa which is where he actually did play in his prime because year 3 or so is when most athletes enter said prime.

I've often said that fans can underrate a player after he leaves here, but at the same time, some of the nostalgia I've seen recently from Cowboys media and blogger types for guys that really didn't make much of a mark is a bit funny to me.
 
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